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Chinese consumers boost smart TV industry

2019-10-09 Products offer interactive scenarios, enhance integration with mobile phones, and connect with various home devices Honor, a smartphone brand of Huawei Technologies Co, launches...
MHI Thermal Systems Concludes Agreement to Establish Automot

-- Expansion in China in Anticipation of a Rapidly Growing Market -- ・ New company MHI AUTOMOTIVE CLIMATE CONTROL (CHANGSHU) CO., LTD. (provisional name) established in the city's ind...
Honeywell Announces Partnerships with China-based Systems Ma
News announced during summer 2019 reveals Honeywell's partnerships with Medea and Sanhua for incorporating Honeywell Solstice N41 rnonflammable refrigerant as replacements for R-410A. Oct 07, 2019 Honeywell in summer 2019 made two major announcements related to the incorporation of its Solstice® N41 (R-446A) refrigerant into HVAC applications. In June, Honeywell represen...
China’s RAC Sales Decline Despite Peak Season
According to data from All View Cloud (AVC), in the first half of this year, the Chinese domestic retail sales of room air conditioners (RACs) were RMB 113.7 billion (US$ 15.9 billion), down by 1.4% from the same period last year. Cooler days in June and July negatively affected sales and inventories piled up to nearly 50 million units. For the 2019 refrigeration year ending in July 2019, RAC ship...
Chinese Manufacturers Looking for Profits in Overseas Market

According to Cheaa.com, the export of room air conditioners (RACs) dropped in the first half of 2019, impacted by the decelerated global economy, currency depreciation in new emerging economies, and t...
Gree AC Production Base to be Completed in Changsha in Septe

Located in the Ningxiang Economic and Technological Development Zone in Changsha, Phase two of Gree’s commercial air conditioner production base will be completed after 15 months of work, which ...
Scroll Compressor Sales Decrease by 16.2% in the First Half
According to statistics from Chinaiol.com, sales of scroll compressors in China in the first half of 2019 decreased by 16.2% to barely 1.70 million units as compared with the same period of 2018. In June alone, the scroll compressor industry posted a performance that was short of expectations with only 307,000 units sold, dropping by 8.8% year on year. Impacted by competition from rotary produc...
Suning Plans to Phase out Non-inverter RACs by 2021
In June 2019, the National Development and Reform Commission teamed up with six departments including the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology to release the Action Plan of Green High Effic...
DunAn & Itomic Made a Strategic Cooperation in CO2 Heat Pump
On August 2, 2019, DunAn commercial air conditioner and Itomic formed a strategic partnership at the 2019 China Heat Pump Industry Annual Conference and the eighth International Air-source Heat Pump I...
Bingshan Group Develops Horizontal Hermetic Scrolls for Car

The Dalian Bingshan Group has initiated a project for the development of compressors for electric vehicle air conditioners, including horizontal hermetic scroll compressors for electric bus air condit...